Nation: Billy Carter Is Not a Buffoon

"I am just an ordinary citizen from a small Southern community," said the
nervous, chain-smoking witness before a Senate subcommittee last week.
But little was ordinary about the fact that Billy Carter had come to
the ornate Senate Caucus Room, the famed site of the Teapot Dome,
McCarthy and Watergate hearings. He was there to testify under oath
about his controversial relations with the government of Libya.
Soft-spoken and attired in a three-piece suit, he was no longer playing
his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a
carefully...